DeLorean for sale, no currency accepted

Cash? Where we're going, we won't need cash.

Great, instead of talking about its backbone chassis, gullwing doors, or innovative construction, one of the biggest selling features is a box full of LED ropelights meant to imitate a movie prop.

Of course, the Back to the Future series of films has done more than even John Z. DeLorean's own outsized personality ever could to raise awareness of this star-crossed car. The DeLorean was, after all, intended to be the car of the future during its lengthy late 1970s gestation, though the rockets had flamed out before the 1984 release of the original Back to the Future movie. That's why its appearance in the film was funny-ironic, a pop-culture joke that's just as lost to the sands of time as "where's the beef?"

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All of this background is meant to give context to what's going on with this particular DeLorean for sale at bitcoinmotor.com. You see, even a former car of the future can still be pioneering in the right hands. This Memphis, TN DMC 12 cannot be purchased with the currency of any nation. Instead, you must pony up 300 bitcoins.

The Bitcoin isn't really illicit, though it has been used for less savory purposes, it's just another currency system, one that's outside of the mainstream. Besides, if you think legal US tender is as pure as the driven snow, you've got another thing coming. Bitcoins have the benefit of not coating your fingers with cocaine residue and viruses, unless your keyboard is really, really filthy. The only catch is the exchange rate, which can fluctuate pretty wildly, so those 300 bitcoins might cost you a lot, or not as much.

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The car itself looks like a well-loved DeLorean with some upgrades. It seems to still be rocking its PRV V6, given that the seller notes a new Thermo-Time Switch, part of the original Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection system. If you do wind up buying it, please resist the temptation to make yet another stupid-ass BTTF time machine replica now that you understand the irony behind its movie stardom. Fame, it's such a double-edged sword.